Definitions for standing
ˈstæn dɪŋstand·ing

Princeton's WordNet(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. standingnoun

   social or financial or professional status or reputation

   "of equal standing"; "a member in good standing"

2. standingnoun

   an ordered listing of scores or results showing the relative positions of competitors (individuals or teams) in a sporting event

3. standingadjective

   the act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position

4. standing(a)adjective

   having a supporting base

   "a standing lamp"

5. standing(a)adjective

   not created for a particular occasion

   "a standing committee"

6. standing(a)adjective

   (of fluids) not moving or flowing

   "mosquitoes breed in standing water"

7. standing(a)adjective

   executed in or initiated from a standing position

   "race from a standing start"; "a standing jump"; "a standing ovation"

8. standingadjective

   (of persons) on the feet; having the torso in an erect position supported by straight legs

   "standing room only"

9. standingadjective

   permanent

   "a standing army"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. standingnoun

   Position or reputation in society or a profession: "He does not have much of a standing as a chemist".

2. standingnoun

   Duration.

   a member of long standing

3. standingnoun

   The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.

4. standingnoun

   The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list: "After their last win, their standing went up three places".

5. standingnoun

   room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles

6. standingnoun

   The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.

   He may be insulting, a miserable rotter and a fool, but unless he slanders or libels you, or damages your property, you do not have standing to sue him.

7. standingverb

   ; in the process of coming to an upright position.

8. standingadjective

   Erect, not cut down.

   So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline? - 1991, Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft

9. standingadjective

   Performed from an erect position.

   standing ovation

10. standingadjective

    Remaining in force or status.

11. standingadjective

    Stagnant; not moving or flowing.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Standing

   of Stand

2. Standingadjective

   remaining erect; not cut down; as, standing corn

3. Standingadjective

   not flowing; stagnant; as, standing water

4. Standingadjective

   not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting; as, a standing color

5. Standingadjective

   established by law, custom, or the like; settled; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as, a standing army; legislative bodies have standing rules of proceeding and standing committees

6. Standingadjective

   not movable; fixed; as, a standing bed (distinguished from a trundle-bed)

7. Standingnoun

   the act of stopping, or coming to a stand; the state of being erect upon the feet; stand

8. Standingnoun

   maintenance of position; duration; duration or existence in the same place or condition; continuance; as, a custom of long standing; an officer of long standing

9. Standingnoun

   place to stand in; station; stand

10. Standingnoun

    condition in society; relative position; reputation; rank; as, a man of good standing, or of high standing

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Standing

   In law, standing or locus standi is the term for the ability of a party to demonstrate to the court sufficient connection to and harm from the law or action challenged to support that party's participation in the case. Standing exists from one of three causes: ⁕The party is directly subject to an adverse effect by the statute or action in question, and the harm suffered will continue unless the court grants relief in the form of damages or a finding that the law either does not apply to the party or that the law is void or can be nullified. This is called the "something to lose" doctrine, in which the party has standing because they directly will be harmed by the conditions for which they are asking the court for relief. ⁕The party is not directly harmed by the conditions by which they are petitioning the court for relief but asks for it because the harm involved has some reasonable relation to their situation, and the continued existence of the harm may affect others who might not be able to ask a court for relief. In the United States, this is the grounds for asking for a law to be struck down as violating the First Amendment, because while the plaintiff might not be directly affected, the law might so adversely affect others that one might never know what was not done or created by those who fear they would become subject to the law – the so-called "chilling effects" doctrine.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. standing

   Settled, established, not temporary. Standing army, is an army which is kept up by a country, and is liable to every species of duty, without any limitations being fixed to its service.

2. standing

   Rank; condition. It likewise signifies length of time; as, such an officer is of very old standing in the army.

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1. • List
   • Status

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'standing' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1488

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'standing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1164

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'standing' in Nouns Frequency: #1455

How to pronounce standing?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say standing in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of standing in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of standing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of standing in a Sentence

1. Eric Fehrstrom:

   One of the reasons you don't brag about your standing in the polls is because when it goes down, you look silly attacking the polls you were praising not so long ago, you actually sound stronger when you're the poll leader if you dismiss those polls.

2. Sir Winston Churchill:

   We contend that for a Nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

3. John Stuart Mill:

   The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary,....

4. John Nelson:

   It would literally darken the sky, i remember one day, I was standing back about 300 feet. I could still see the flames rising above the pit.

5. William Spriggs:

   The racial wealth gap is the accumulation of advantage, wealth is savings in many forms. It could be in assets like homes, stock, land and many those things don't go away. When somebody amasses that it just keeps being passed forward and the children are standing on somebody's financial shoulders.

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